Walk this way.Missed the school bus? Why not walk instead? Scientists found that teens who walk to school are more active all day long. Leslie Alexander Leslie "Les" Alexander is a former stock trader from New Jersey who owns the National Basketball Association team Houston Rockets. Started trading options and bonds for a Wall Street firm before he broke off to form his own investment company, the Alexander Group, in 1980. , a public-health scientist at Edinburgh Edinburgh (ĕd`ĭnbərə), city (1991 pop. 433,200) and council area, royal burgh, capital of Scotland, on the Firth of Forth. Leith, part of the city since 1920, is Edinburgh's port. University in Scotland Scotland, political division of Great Britain (1991 pop. 4,957,000), 30,414 sq mi (78,772 sq km), comprising the northern portion of the island of Great Britain and many surrounding islands. , compared the daily physical activity of Scottish teens who strolled to school with those who got a ride. The findings: Walkers made more active choices throughout the day. Example: They may have chosen to take the stairs instead of the elevator elevator, in machinery elevator, in machinery, device for transporting people or goods from one level to another. The term is applied to the enclosed structures as well as the open platforms used to provide vertical transportation in buildings, large ships, . That's good news, says Alexander. "Often, active people are healthier." Look at the graph (right). How much more exercise did teens engage in if they walked both ways to school instead of just one? |
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